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The Aloha State, Adam Berlin

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It wasn't our honeymoon but it was Hawaii. It had been all sky and water for thousands of miles, blue above, blue below.

At The Harbor, Martha Christina

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Some days,
light passing
its benevolent hands

To Be So Dead He Sure Is Big, Phillip Gardner

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Donnie Swank said, "He sure was big."

Editor's Note

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Dedication, Charles Harper Webb

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Where did Blake Bumgardner find the washtub-sized
cojones to confess over the phone, then listen

Without Breath, Michelle Soucy

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I'm eight years old and my parents make me sleep in my sick younger brother's bed with him in case he stops breathing again

Secret Lives, Mary Elizabeth Parker

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A lacy blouse, two breasts beneath

The Place Of Literature, Paul Hostovsky

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Mr. Gordon was perhaps a little tipsy
at the awards ceremony, perhaps a little

Verso

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Children At The Wake, John Grey

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I admit that, more than once,

I've pointed to the sky

Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History: Plato, King Of Syracuse, Phong Nguyen

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When Dionysus II first offered to Plato the city of Syracuse, jewel of Sicily, for the philosopher to rule as his own, there was a moment of hesitation

36., Sean Lause

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Thomas Null, machine 36, the hole-puncher,
was secretly apprenticed to despair

Peace, Jack Granath

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I remember it as
a rock song, though

Sonny, R. Steve Benson

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Seized by the day
he fell under a harrow

Pretty Ballerina, Kerry Jones

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It's just one of those things that sometimes happens to me: I'll find myself walking by a playground, or I'll be walking through the mall, and I'll see a little girl about eleven or so, and that's when my mind takes on a life of its own.

Art Of The Bardo, Robert Haynes

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What can be known of the Bardo is simply
a reawakening to, say, a Monach,

Contributors

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Title Page

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Table Of Contents

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The Palm Reader Is Packing It In, Richard Luftig

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Since the cops have cracked down
there's no future in fortune telling anymore.

Confidence, Laura Buermann

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I am a polysyllabic phenomenon,
a thesauric wunderkind

Tierra Blanca, Andrea Lewis

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I had what I wanted. I was alone with Charles.

You And I, Gregory Sherl

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This morning we decide to build
a baby in your belly.

I Killed A Bug Last Night, Carol Hamilton

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He was walking along the edge
of the tasseled rug, no hurry,

Traveling Alone, She Fell In The Sistine Chapel--, M. J. Iuppa

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collapsed in a whirl, as if a gust of wind
struck her weak ankle and set her spinning--

Bee Lust In Manhattan, John F. Buckley, Martin Ott

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Thousands of bees swarmed outside a Manhattan
deli, trapping dozens of patrons, the meat scent

On John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things", Nathaniel Lee Hansen

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With steady three-beat brushes and cymbal
of Elvin Jones, stand-up pulse of Steve Davis,

A Map For Students, William Jolliff

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They want to make their poems right themselves,
and they know they should, but to win the A
they need me to like their work (so goes the rumor).

A Bullfight, C. W. Owens

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Warily, the bull's hooves pound the sand--
black hide, muscle, churning with intelligence--

On The First Morning, Patsy Anne Bickerstaff

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of spring
when I see a red shiny
balloon valentine shaped
descend